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The rapid expansion of the digital realm has brought immense benefits, from connectivity to education and economic opportunities. However, it has also created a...

About 16% of the global population (1.3 billion people) currently experience significant disability, including nearly 240 million children. In 2023, 101 million people, or...

World Leaders Adopt Historic Pact for the Future at UN General Assembly At the Summit of the Future on 22 September 2024, world leaders adopted...

Lydia, Hélène, Maria, Eman, Mélissa... These are the names of women killed in Belgium over the past year by their partners. Globally, 51,100 women...

During the past four weeks, more than 800 students from schools in Belgium and across Europe were visited by officials from UN entities and...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres spoke at the opening of the 10th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Cascais, Portugal,...

Unique among United Nations agencies, UNRWA, the Palestine Refugee Agency, is mandated by the United Nations’ Member States to provide public-like services directly, including...

Every 10 minutes, a woman is killed by an intimate partner or a family member. This number should be shocking, but what’s even more...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has teamed up with PlanetPlay, a not-for-profit organisation that uses games to promote environmental change, to launch Play2Act....

Icelandic architect Arnhildur Pálmadóttir has successfully designed houses with only 40% of the carbon footprint of comparable conventional buildings. Her efforts to improve sustainability...

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Fourteen countries have announced their intention to intervene in the context of South Africa’s complaint, which accuses Israel of “genocide” in the Gaza Strip,...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed his deep concern over the adoption by the Knesset of Israel of two laws which would likely prevent...

Many Western European leaders have expressed their worries about Monday’s vote by the Israeli Knesset banning the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...